Proving the existence of equilibrium having specified properties is often synonymous
with proving the result in trade theory. The Grandmont-McFadden proposition that any
autarkic allocation can be replaced by a Pareto ...

Much of the dynamic literature on intellectual property protection (IPP) arrays goods along a segment of the real line, one endpoint of which expands with innovation. A single margin of innovation brings computational ...

This paper develops a model of an open economy containing both sectors in which wages are market-determined and sectors with wage-setting arrangements. A
portion of the latter group of sectors coordinate their wages, ...

The standard time-inconsistency-based explanation for the negative correlation
between openness and inflation requires an inverse relationship between the sacrifice
ratio and openness, but Daniels et al. (forthcoming) ...

Monopoly response to buyers who pay fraction c of the product cost is to raise the buyer price for the initial quantity q0 from p0 to 1/c p0, and adjust to a different price and quantity only if profits are thereby raised ...

This paper explores the determinants and implications of church-state relationships. A theoretical model of a government’s decision to establish, or disestablish, a state church is developed and then tested with data from ...

We conduct an empirical test of the relationship between religious pluralism and religious participation in U.S. counties using a fixed-effects panel estimation technique. The empirical
technique allows us to control for ...

In the 1970’s and 1980’s, courts in most U.S. states adopted some type of common law wrongful discharge cause of action. The various causes of action for wrongful discharge are generally placed into three categories: public ...

Within-child associations between family income and child externalizing and internalizing problems were examined using longitudinal data from the NICHD Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development (n = 1,132). Variations ...